Introduction

In the Introduction which follows we shall show that Iceland’s climate is extraordinarily marginal with respect to agriculture. Its summers are barely warm enough or long enough for either natural herbage or cultivated grasses to provide fodder for livestock. Its history is one of constant struggle...

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Main Authors: Parry, M.L., Carter, T.R., Konijn, N.T.
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Springer 1988
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Iceland
Online Access:https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13019/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2943-2_13
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spelling ftiiasalaxenburg:oai:pure.iiasa.ac.at:13019 2023-05-15T16:48:07+02:00 Introduction Parry, M.L. Carter, T.R. Konijn, N.T. 1988 https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13019/ https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2943-2_13 unknown Springer Parry, M.L. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/2279.html>, Carter, T.R. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/1793.html>, & Konijn, N.T. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/2057.html> (1988). Introduction. In: The Impact of Climatic Variations on Agriculture. pp. 389-413 Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. ISBN 978-94-009-2943-2 10.1007/978-94-009-2943-2_13 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2943-2_13>. doi:10.1007/978-94-009-2943-2_13 Book Section PeerReviewed 1988 ftiiasalaxenburg https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2943-2_13 2023-04-07T14:51:43Z In the Introduction which follows we shall show that Iceland’s climate is extraordinarily marginal with respect to agriculture. Its summers are barely warm enough or long enough for either natural herbage or cultivated grasses to provide fodder for livestock. Its history is one of constant struggle between man and nature at a long-standing frontier of the settled world — a history in which the impact of climate on society is an unbroken theme. Iceland thus offers an attractive laboratory in which to study both the impacts of climatic variations on agriculture and the responses of agriculture to such impacts. Book Part Iceland IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis: PUblications REpository) 389 413 Dordrecht
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description In the Introduction which follows we shall show that Iceland’s climate is extraordinarily marginal with respect to agriculture. Its summers are barely warm enough or long enough for either natural herbage or cultivated grasses to provide fodder for livestock. Its history is one of constant struggle between man and nature at a long-standing frontier of the settled world — a history in which the impact of climate on society is an unbroken theme. Iceland thus offers an attractive laboratory in which to study both the impacts of climatic variations on agriculture and the responses of agriculture to such impacts.
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